Yesterday was one of those golden October days with perfect temperature and blue skies, leaves on trees and vines just starting to turn color. I was driving along back roads in central Massachusetts and whenever I passed sunlit meadows all I could think about were […]
It seems like cat calls were a lot more common a few years ago and I remember when just about no woman could ever pass a construction site or open manhole where men were working and not be subject to whistles and all kinds of…compliments. […]
Now that this year is coming to a close I feel compelled to reflect on the wild ride of emotions, experiences and newfound wisdom that was my 2017. The skewed values of a rat race are hard to let go but I learned this […]
Have you ever wished you had a voice activated, moving LED sign attached to the rear window of your car? Imagine if all cars had them? Mine would be very active. I spend a lot of time on I95 – the only major road from […]
The sizzler was a short lived look that was popular around 1972. I don’t know the origin of the name but it was a very short dress, often made of slinky polyester, with puffy sleeves and matching bloomers to wear underneath. They were also very […]
I guess you could say my first sales job was selling weed. I was living on the Lower East Side in 1984 and my day job was working as the social secretary to the Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations. Life was dull and I […]
I’ve been lucky. Always able to go from one job to the next with ease and confidence and each time landing in a better situation. That’s how it’s supposed to work. The featured image is a slight exaggeration of how I feel at the moment. […]
Not long after I lost my job, I started volunteering. In between looking for another job and attending the depressing career transition seminars that came with my severance, I needed something that would help put things in perspective so that I wouldn’t go insane from […]
Social secretary to a UN ambassador doesn’t sound like a typical first job for an art school graduate. Yet in 1982 after circling an ad in the New York Times with a red magic marker, there I was. People would ask how on earth did […]
